It’s the Black Country video of four ‘grannies’ dirty dancing that has gone viral around the world.

The elderly dance troupe had visitors to Stourbridge Carnival in stitches by defying their apparent age to bust some raunchy moves to music hits, including ‘twerking’ to Beyonce’s Single Ladies and Gangnam Style by Psy.

Yet the ‘grannies’ are nothing of the sort.

They are actually friends Sue Hawkins, Jackie Fellows, Deb Nicholls and Emma Rollason who perform together for the Dudley-based Fizzog Productions.

Now the video of their hilarious dance act has become a hit as far afield as India, Japan and America. So far it has attracted more than 120,000 views on YouTube and 500,000 shares on Facebook worldwide – and the girls may now be invited to the US to appear on TV.

The professional group have been together for 14 years after meeting at Dudley College where they studied Community Theatre. They are based at Thorns Community College in Brierley Hill.

Sue added: “We are all from the Black Country and are very proud of our roots. These characters have been around for some time and they appear in comedy sketches which we perform at community events and shows.

“We developed the characters after visiting nursing homes in the Black Country, so these funny characters are based on some of the lovely people we met.

“The Black County flag is in the background of the video and it’s great to promote the region to the world, especially as it is Black Country Day today.”